# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-kiba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:54:57.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-kiba"
name: "Ali Kiba"
slug: "ali-kiba"
description: "Ali Saleh Kiba, best known as Ali Kiba or occasionally as King Kiba, is a Tanzanian musician and songwriter. He is one of the most talented musicians in East Africa and mostly considered the King of Bongo Flava music Genre. He is from Kigoma and the owner of both Kings Music label and Crown Media Group. With hit songs such as Mwana, Aje, Chekecha Cheketua, Cinderella, Nakshi Mrembo, Usiniseme, Dushelele, Single Boy with Lady Jaydee, Mapenzi Yana Run Dunia and Macmuga. Ali Kiba is usually regarded as one of the most successful Bongo Flava stars usually associated with his close rival Diamond Platnumz."
tagline: "Tanzanian singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ali_Kiba_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1986-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           68.57
  momentum:             0.6101694915254238
  historical:           8.188017333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 2560000
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/officialalikiba/"
    handle:    "officialalikiba"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlikiba"
    handle:    "OfficialAlikiba"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11497651/"
    handle:    "nm11497651"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2nGoKcLdXktxEXvMdTDsIT"
    handle:    "2nGoKcLdXktxEXvMdTDsIT"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlyAXLzVNfsh3geYD9Cc4A"
    handle:    "@alikibaofficial"
    followers: 2560000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1527473"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kiba"
    title: "Ali Kiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kiba"
    title: "Ali Kiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kiba"
    title: "Ali Kiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kiba"
    title: "Ali Kiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alikiba"
    title: "Alikiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kiba"
    title: "Ali Kiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E5%9F%BA%E5%B7%B4"
    title: "阿里·基巴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ali_Kiba"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b68e051f-2a02-40c5-a99f-da78cc65a5d5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21285312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump